Iowa
Old Press
Humeston New Era
Humeston, Wayne, Iowa
May 25, 1921
THINGS THAT OTHER PAPERS TELL
- J.D. Carlyle of Allerton brought 471 rat tails to Corydon last
Friday to enter in the Des Moines Register contest now
going on. Come on get busy.
- Mrs. Geo. Kimple went to Des Moines Sunday, to see her
daughter, Mrs. Floyd Merritt, who underwent an operation there
last week for appendicitis.
IOWA NEWS BRIEFS
- Angered because his love had been spurned, August Kreuse, 25, a
farmer, shot Miss June Smith and then himself. The girl will
recover. Kruese died from his wounds.
- Following the drinking of carbolic acid, John Schott,
well-to-do farmer of near Sac City, died in the presence of his
family. Ill health is given as the cause of his suicide.
- George Connable, proprietor of a shoe shop at Alta, has been
arrested on a charge of bigamy preferred by his wife, who alleges
that he has another wife in South Dakota.
- Dorothy Davenport, 8 years old, daughter of L. Davenport,
Kellehern, Iowa, was bruised when the car her father was driving
collided with a machine driven by W.M. Crowley in Des Moines.
- When George Rolefs of near Sheldon, attempted to hang himself
recently by a rope from a windmill, his 14-year-old son cut the
rope. Rolefs fell about fifty feet. Although his neck was broken
he is expected to live.
- Sheriff Gregson of Poweshiek county brought in two stills
recently. One was a large homemade affair found at the Fred
Monroe home northwest of Deep River, and the other was found at
the Clarence Briney home near Brooklyn. With the first one there
was found half a pint of the finished article and about three
barrels of mash ready for a new stock.
- William O. Smith, car inspector for Chicago Milwaukee and St.
Paul was arrested recently at Cedar Rapids by postal inspectors
while in the act of robbing mail pouches. It is said by postal
officers that Smith confessed to having robbed mail sacks for
some time. The arrest of Smith, a married man, with a family, was
the climax of a series of mail pouch robberies on the Milwaukee
road since last February.
- The tragic story of the swindling of an old man of his money
was told in District court at Palo, where suit was tried to
recover on notes issued by John C. Armstrong before a guardian
was appointed for him. Testimony has shown that Armstrong bought
most any kind of stock at any price quoted. He purchased $105,000
worth of stock in local concern which has never been run,
purchased a dry oil well, and threw away his entire fortune.
- Dorothy, 4-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Eli Judah, living
near Hastings, was burned to death as a result of a childish
prank. Three children in the family were sent on an errand and
finding a pile of leaves and securing matches they started a
bonfire. A younger brother of Dorothy, in play, pushed his sister
too near the flames and her clothing was ignited and burned off.
She died in a few hours later. The child's mother was badly
burned about the hands and arms trying to extinguish the flames.
- John McQuilkin, former mayor, civil war veteran and member of
the Black Hawk county board of supervisors for thirty years, died
at his home in La Porte City recently after a three weeks'
illness which attacked him on his return from an inspection trip
for the county.
[transcribed by C.J.L. May 2007]